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De Magnete

Overview

De Magnete, Magneticisque Corporibus, et de Magno Magnete Tellure (On the Magnet and Magnetic Bodies, and on That Great Magnet the Earth) is a scientific work published in 1600 by the English physician and scientist William Gilbert. A highly influential and successful book, it exerted an immediate influence on many contemporary writers, including Francis Godwin and Mark Ridley.

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Philosophers who discussed De Magnete

• William Gilbert (physicist)
• René Descartes

Related ideas

• William Gilbert (physicist)
• Heraclides Ponticus
• Celestial spheres
• Earth's rotation
• Ecliptic

Place in the tradition

Part of Cosmology.

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